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Quotes About Expectations

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
~ Pope Paul VI
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
~ Victoria Wood
That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.
~ Irene Dunne
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
~ Julius Caesar
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
~ Deborah Kerr
Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
~ Lauren Bacall
Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.
~ Laura Schlessinger
If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
~ Dale Carnegie
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
~ David Bowie
I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.
~ Amy Winehouse
I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.
~ Gene Simmons
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
~ H. L. Mencken
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
~ Marilyn Monroe
What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
~ Naomi Wolf
trying to get Dutch people to prepare for disasters was a little like trying to get English people to watch football on the telly or Americans to buy guns.
~ Neal Stephenson
It's just like the reviews promised—other people's ordinariness is more rewarding than your own. Their banality is soothing to your own sense of failure. Because being you is so much more interesting than being me.
~ Neal Stephenson
It's time for him to get over into the right lanes where the retards and the bimbo boxes poke along, random, indecisive, looking at each passing franchise's driveway like they don't know if it's a promise or a threat.
~ Neal Stephenson
And this all fits very well with the modern way of thinking about stuff in which all you need to do, in order to attain a sense of personal accomplishment and earn the accolades of your peers, is to demonstrate an ability to slot new examples of things into the proper intellectual pigeon-holes.
~ Neal Stephenson
It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I'm forced to do exactly what's expected.
~ Neal Stephenson